Hanger for doors



No. 752,924. PATENTED FEB. 28,1904 W. ROHDE & HASTINGS.

HANGER FOR DOORS, GATES, OR THE LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 6, 1902.

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UNITE STATES I Patented February 23, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

' WILLIAM Roi-inn AnnwILLIAM HASTINGS, or SANDUSKY, OHIO, ASSIGNORS orONE-HALF TO WILLIAM F. BoLLY AND ED. H. zunnons'r, or SANDUSKY, orno.

HANGER FOR DOOR-S, GATES, OR THE LIKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Yatent N0. 752,924, dated February23, 1904:.

Application filed August 5, 1902.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, IVILLIAM Ronnn and WILLIAM HASTINGS, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Sandusky, in the county of Erie and Stateof Ohio, have invented a new and useful Hanger for Doors, Grates, orthe,

Like, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to hangers forv doors, gates, and thelike, and while particularly devised for use upon cars it will be evi-.

dent upon an inspection of the hereinafter Said track or removing thedoor from the endthereof.

One of the preferred means for accomplishingthis object is illustratedin the accompanying drawings and described in the followingspecification, though it-will be evident upon referring to the claimsthat the invention is not limited to the exact structure shown anddescribed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of a portion of anordinary freight-car,

showing the improved door-hanging mechanism applied thereto. Fig. 2 is alongitudinal sectional view, on an enlarged scale, through one of thedoor-hangers and the supportingtrack. Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectionalview taken on the line X X of Fig. 2. Fig. i is a detail perspectiveview of one of the hangerbodies. Fig. 5 is a detail horizontal sectionalview through the fastening for the journalpins.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all thefigures of the draw- Ings.

In this embodiment a portion of an ordinary freight-car is shown, theside wall of which is designated 10, the usual sliding door being shownat 11. This door is supported by means able through the front of thehanger.

SerialNo. 118,54=3, .(Nd model.)

of hangers 12,.that. rest upon a track 13, secured to the outer face ofthe car above the door. flange 14c and an inner attaching-flange 15,whichis wider than the bearing-flange, the

wider portion extending above said flange to receive fastening-bolts, as16. The two flanges are connectedby a horizontally-disposed web 17, thatis attached to their adjacent faces intermediate their edges.

The hangers 12 each comprise a body-plate 18, secured at its lower endby means of bolts, as 19, to the upper end of the door, said platehaving a depending ear 20, that is spaced from the inner face of thesame. This ear and the adjacent portion of the body-plate are providedwith alined openings 21, and said body- :plate is provided on its outerface with pro-.

jections 22, which are located on opposite sides of the opening 21. Thebody-plate, furthermore, has onits inner face an upstandingretaining-lug 23, and the distance between the adjacent ends'of the earand lug is greater than the width of the bearing-flange 14 of the track,as is clearly shown in Fig. 2. The rea-- son for this is hereinafterdescribed. A supporting-roller 24: is located between the ear 20 and theadjacent portion of the body-plate, being journaled upon a pin 25,passed through the alined openings 21, said pin being remqolvl e pin isheld against longitudinal movement or displacement by means of a splitkey 26, that is passed through the projections 22 and through the frontend ,of the pin arranged between said projections, all of which isclearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The lower end of the roller 24: projectsbelow the lower end of the ear 20 and rests upon the upper edge of thebearingflange 14:, thus supporting the hanger with the upstandingretaining-lug 28 engagedbehind the lower edge of the flange 1 1.

In use the door is operated in the ordinary manner by sliding itbackward or forward to open or close it, the rollers riding upon theupper edge of the bearing-flange of the upper track, the retaining-lugs23 assisting in preventing any lateral movement. Should it be- Thistrack comprises an outer bearing thereby releasing the rollers, whichcan be removed. As a result the door can be lowered sufficiently topermit the bearing-flange of the track to pass between the adjacent endsof the retaining-lugs and ears, and the door may, therefore be removedwithout removing the hanger-bodies or the track. It will be noted thatthis operation can be performed because of the fact that thejournal-pins are removable through the fronts of the hanger' body, whichis an extremely important point in the present invention and is to bedistinguished from that class in which the pins are riveted in place orare in the form of bolts, the latter .of which usually have the nuts onthe inner sides, to which access cannot be.

readily gained. Furthermore, experience has shown that journal-pinsemploying nuts are not entirely satisfactory, especially onrailway-cars, as the jars and shocks tend to unthread them from the pinsor bolts. It will therefore be seen that the present structure has manyadvantages due to the construction and arrangement of the elements andthat it accomplishes the objects pointed out in the preliminary portion,of the specification.

From the foregoing it is thought that the construction, operation, andmany advantages of the herein-described invention will be apparent tothose skilled in the art without further description, and it will beunderstood that'various changes in the size, shape, proportion, andminor details of construction may be resorted to without departing fromthe spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Let ters Patent, is v 1. A hanger of the class described,comprising a body, a roller arranged upon the inner face of the body, ajournal-pin passingthrough the body and roller, said pin being removablethrough the front of the body, and means engaging the front end of thepin to hold it against longitudinal displacement.

2. A hanger of the class described, comprising a body having an earspaced from the inner face thereof, a supporting-roller located betweenthe ear and the body, a journal-pin passing through the body and rollerand engaging the ear, said pin being removable through the body, and aholding device mounted upon the body and detachably engaging the frontend of the pin to hold it against longitudinal displacement.

3. A hanger of the class described, comprising a body having an earspaced from the inner face thereof, a supporting roller located betweenthe ear and the body, a journal-pin passing through the body and rollerand engaging the ear, said pin being removable through the body, and akey detachably securing the pin to the body.

4. A hanger of the class described, comprising a body having an earspaced from the inner face thereof, said body being provided with anopening and a projection located contiguous to said opening, asupporting-roller located between the ear and the body, a journalpinpassing through the opening in the body through the roller and engagingthe ear, and a key passing through the projection of the body and thefront end of the pin to hold said pin against longitudinal displacement.

5. In a hanger of the class described, the combination with a trackcomprising a bearing-flange, an attaching-flange that is wider than thebearing-flange, and an intermediate horizontal web connecting theflanges between their upper and lower edges, of fastening means passingthrough the attaching-flange above the web, the depending portion ofsaid flange below the web constituting a bearing, and door-hangerssupported on the bearingflange and having upstanding lugs located in thespaces between the lower edges of the flanges and beneath the web.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have heretoaflixed our signatures in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM ROHDE. WILLIAM HASTINGS. Witnesses:

JOSEPH CARNEY, JOHN HEITZLER.

